…it’s hard to separate premeditated bias from accidental bias—they look the same.

— David Komlos and David Benjamin, Cracking Complexity

Your working environment needs to be rich in sensory opportunities, or else it will literally cause brain damage.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

No matter how technically proficient the individual robots are at soccer, their team’s performance will improve when they can speak to each other as if they are not preprogrammed robots but autonomous agents believing they have options.

— Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie, The Book of Why

Different databases are designed to solve different problems. Using a single database engine for all of the requirements usually leads to non- performant solutions; storing transactional data, caching session information, traversing graph of customers and the products their friends bought are essentially different problems.

— Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin Fowler, NoSQL Distilled

The public’s belief about the alleged “Mozart” effect is a mind myth. There is almost no convincing scientific evidence to suggest that playing his piano concertos for babies will have any long-term or meaningful impact on their intelligence.

— Richard Wiseman, 59 Seconds